All Films

Catblue: Dynamite

2006 • 42 min • Japan

It is the end of 70s. Blue – a woman with cat ears and tail – has solved many incidents and troubles with her special ability to see a ghost and her technique to handle three guns at one using her tail.

White Song

2006 • 11 min • Australia

The most famous of Indonesian ghosts, the Kuntil Anak, tells the story of Raesita, the batik artist, whose heavy grief after the death of her husband draws the ghost to her. They seduce each other into a deadly dream world. Raesita's own desire for oblivion moulds perfectly to the Kuntil Anak's desire to save her from the pain of life. But it is Raesita's unborn child, and its desire to live, that the Kuntil Anak has not counted upon.

Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity

2006 • 23 min • United States of America

A presentation of the facts and theory surrounding the astronomical phenomenon of "black holes", using the latest in computer-generated imagery. Theories regarding their origin are presented, along with speculation about what lies with and beyond them.

Who Is Bozo Texino?

2006 • 56 min • United States of America

"Who Is Bozo Texino?" is a film study on the 100-year-old tradition of hobo and railworker graffiti. Mostly shot on freight trips across the western US, the film includes interviews with some of the railroad’s greatest graffiti legends: Colossus of Roads, The Rambler, Herby (RIP) and the granddaddy of them all, Bozo Texino. The film also catches some of the socio-economic history of hobo subculture from its roots after the Civil War to the present day. The range of the interviews, and the film’s style deal with both the clichés and the harsh realities of tramp life.

The Celestial Railroad

2006 • 48 min • Japan

Welcome aboard the fantasy train in the stars! "Fantasy Railroad in the Stars" is a fantastic journey of a boy, Giovanni, in a dreamscape created into a colourful full-dome CG animation picture with inspiring background music. Based on the famous Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru story written by Kenji Miyazawa in the early 20th century, Kagaya, a digital fine artist, has breathed new life into the unique imaginary world using creativity and precise astronomical knowledge. The starry sky is depicted as the Celestial Field made up of a river, a field of silver grasses, flowers, birds, survey towers, railway signals and more. Across this amazing beautiful scenery, the Celestial Railroad runs along the Milky Way. It is a fantasy world in full colour, but designed with scientific accuracy.

Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'

2006 • 40 min • United States of America

A new documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film, Jigoku. Featuring exclusive interview with Nakagawa collaborators.

Statross le magnifique

2006 • 23 min • France

Statross is a mixed-race baron who lives in a mansion haunted by the ghost of his father, a Nazi colonel. Statross is tormented by his identity and the past of his ancestors.

Aberfan: The Untold Story

2006 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about the tragedy which struck the Welsh mining village of Aberfan in 1966, when a mountain of coal slurry engulfed a school, claiming 144 lives, many of them children.

Severed Lives

2006 • 45 min

A small group of college students decides to film a documentary on the twenty-year-old murders of two sorority girls for their senior thesis project. Each student carries a secret that threatens to sever the seams of the film's production and, even worse, their friendships. But one student's secret verges on deadly, and soon the group finds themselves running for their lives from a maniacal killer intent on hiding the past.

A War on Science

2006 • 50 min • United Kingdom

When Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution nearly 150 years ago, he shattered the dominant belief of his day – that humans were the product of divine creation. Through his observations of nature, Darwin proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection. This caused uproar. After all, if the story of creation could be doubted, so too could the existence of the creator. Ever since its proposal, this cornerstone of biology has sustained wave after wave of attack. Now some scientists fear it is facing the most formidable challenge yet: a controversial new theory called intelligent design.

Building No. 7

2006 • 4 min

A short by Steven Soderbergh described as “intense sci-fi homage to Godard.”

Misty Mountain

2006 • 30 min • Iceland

While based in a remote NATO radar station in Iceland in late 1960's, Warren occasionally time traveled into the future - to the year 2006 - and now as his former destination in time becomes his present, he returns to prevent the death of a woman he fell in love with during his travels.

Cartoneros

2006 • 60 min • Argentina

Cartoneros follows the paper recycling process in Buenos Aires from the trash pickers who collect paper informally through middlemen in warehouses, to executives in large corporate mills. The process exploded into a multimillion dollar industry after Argentina's latest economic collapse. The film is both a record of an economic and social crisis and an invitation to audiences to rethink the value of trash.

Razor Wire Rodeo

2006 • 52 min • Switzerland

In 1995, Jerry Brown, 18, was sentenced to life without parole for murder at Angola (Louisiana), America's most infamous maximum-security prison. He is now the star of the Angola Prison Rodeo. Each Sunday in October, inmates battle bulls without training for a few seconds of fame and some money. For Angola's warden, the proceeds of the rodeo fund the religious education of his inmates. "Razor Wire Rodeo" tells the unflinching story of lives defined by violence and crushed by the pitiless corrections practices in Louisiana. Jerry Brown believes his fame will help him to get out of Angola. But in a state, that hardly ever grants clemencies, his battle against the bull is symbolic of a fight for freedom lost a long time ago.

Emily

2006 • 1 min

A girl cries.

Gettin' Some Jail Time

2006 • 31 min • United States of America

A film about four friends of different ethnicities, beginning to take things for granted. Three of them end up in jail while one of the guys is throwing a party. While in prison, the three buddies realize what they are missing out on and make an effort to redeem themselves and get out.

Les Héros du 11 Septembre

2006 • 60 min

Constellations

2006 • 7 min • United States of America

Film by Paul Clipson. Music by Jefre Cantu Ledesma.

The Bridge

2006 • 8 min • Australia

A gay Australian man reflects on the immigration problems of his young Russian boyfriend.

Clown, clown, clan

2006 • 4 min • France

A clown gets overrun, caught and abused by a group outraged people dressed in white capes.

15 Miles On The Erie Canal (Part 1)

2006 • 60 min • United States of America

The Erie Canal was an engineering marvel in its time and remains so today. This documentary travels from Palmyra to the Genesee River, stopping along the way to visit the people and places that make the canal so special. Canal historian Thomas Grasso offers insight into the canal’s past while the Golden Eagle String Band provides the music track.

Catch One Up!

2006 • 5 min • United States of America

Scoop's Sister Tina gets bribed by Shep for an Ice Cream Making Machine, however, 1-up hears this as if Tina got lots of toys, then she would be happier, but 1-up Accidentally stole Shep's Toys, Leaving 1-up, Scoops and Tina to try to put them back before Shep wakes up.

Arktos: The Internal Journey of Mike Horn

2006 • 52 min • France

Mike Horn has gone along the Arctic Circle alone for 27 months, 20,000 km, without any motorized transportation. He has faced ice storms, temperatures from -70°C to 15°C, polar bears, a fire that destroyed most of his equipment and nearly burned him alive and he was the first man to cross entire Siberia on foot. But first of all, Arktos is a human tale. He meets an Inuit who teaches him to build an igloo in 20 minutes; Vassia, an elderly Russian fisher; among many others. After all, Mike met himself.

Courtyard

2006 • 25 min • Slovenia

In a block of flats at the edge of town the local children enjoy playing basketball in their courtyard. When their grumpy neighbor confiscates their basketball the children decide to go on an elaborate rescue mission to retrieve it.